Robert Vincent is one of the most acclaimed new voices on the Americana music scene. Born in Crosby Liverpool, his upbringing inculcated him with a very Merseyside culture of storytelling and language. In 2013 Robert Vincent released his debut album Life in Easy Steps. Critically well received, the title track was play-listed by Radio 2. After meeting Whispering Bob Harris at an event called ‘Bluebird at the Bluecoat’ that brought the concept of the bluebird cafe in Nashville to The Bluecoat Chambers in Liverpool, the legendary radio presenter invited Robert to perform a live session on his Radio 2 show and in 2016 awarded him with his ‘Emerging Artist’ of the year award at the inaugural UK Americana Awards show in Hackney London. In 2018 his Sophomore album ‘I’ll Make the Most of my Sins’ was named UK Americana Album of the Year. Meeting and performing with musical director Ethan Johns at the award ceremony would shape his future career. In February of 2018 Robert was invited to perform on the BBC ‘Old Grey Whistle Test, For One Night Only’ closing the show. It was this performance that would propel him to number 1 and 2 in the iTunes Album and Singles Charts. Robert's latest release ‘In this Town You’re Owned' charted at number 2 in the UK Americana Charts been critically praised both in the UK and Europe and USA. At the midway point of the year American Songwriter Magazine named ‘In this Town You’re Owned’ in its top 20 albums (every genre) of 2020 to date. ‘In This Town You’re Owned’ has also picked up Americana Music Association UK Album & Artist of The Year 2021, plus Americana UK Album & Artist of the Year 2020.

Support act(s): tbc Presented by Bad Vibrations 18+ only (photo ID required)

Baba Yaga's Hut Presents: North Sea Radio Orchestra £20 (inc. fees) - St Matthias Church - 19th July 2025 Presented by Baba Yaga's Hut. All ages

DHP Presents: Herman Dune Presented by DHP FAMILY. This is an 18+ event.

A Los Angeles singer/songwriter with an acute gift for intimate and detailed introspection, Christian Lee Hutson threads through avenues of light Americana, smart indie pop, and lo-fi folk storytelling. The tone of his music is gentle, but there's an insistence and clarity in his lyrics that gives his performances a subtle strength.

Hard Art x Broadside Hacks present... The Ballad of The Gatekeeper Celebrating the launch of Jennifer Reid’s new album, ‘The Ballad of the Gatekeeper’ With performances from Jennifer Reid In conversation with Goblin Band Compared by reality TV star and climate justice activist Daze Aghaji With artwork presented by artists from the Hard Art collective \- Jennifer Reid performs Victorian and Georgian Lancashire dialect work song and broadside ballads sung on the streets of Manchester. After collaborating with Jeremy Deller at the Venice Biennale in 2015, she has performed internationally and locally to support communities to express their identity and heritage by understanding global capitalism through song. She performs, researches, collects, teaches, writes, sings and talks to make sure the tradition is preserved in a way that everyone can access. Hard Art is a cultural collective of artists, organisers, scientists, democratic innovators and more, standing in solidarity in the face of climate and democratic collapse. Artists include Brian Eno, Jeremy Deller, Es Devlin and Pete Townshend, dedicated to making art that’s relevant to the time we’re in, and creating a future of care and freedom. Presented by Broadside Hacks. This is an 18+ event

Support act(s): tbc Presented by Bird On The Wire 18+ only (photo ID required)

Join us for A fast-paced, vintage, radio-style comedy set in the 1940s with live sound effects. In this adventure, join loveable half-wit John Jobling & his savvy housemaid Doris Golightly as they hop on board the train going north in search of a myriad of missing juniper berries. But How much can Hollywood Matinee idols get away with? How distracting can a pheasant really be? And exactly how delicious is a glass of "Captain Botanicals Navy Strength Gin topped up with Wildleaf Atlas Tonic Water? For the answer to these & other questions, youll need to Book your tickets pronto for this excellent, fun-filled adventure!

When Nina Nesbitt released her debut album Peroxide in February 2014, she was just 19. That the half Scottish, half Swedish singer/songwriter has already spent two years putting out EPs, touring the country and steadily building her fan base -- her video views stand at more than 20 million. Some may lazily label Nina as a mainstream pop artist but her career approach has a lot more in common with the DIY ethic of punk. Not afraid to experiment with genre, she is a songwriter who has built her career by gigging relentlessly and even makes her own tour T-shirts. Since being discovered by Ed Sheeran at the age of 16 and self-releasing her debut EP, The Apple Tree, signing to Island Records and being named ’Singer/Songwriter New Artist of the Year‘ by iTunes at the tail-end of 2012, Nina’s natural knack for songwriting has been honed by months spent in the studio with producer Jake Gosling (Paloma Faith, Ed Sheeran, One Direction) and working with Iain Archer (Jake Bugg).

Baba Yaga's Hut Presents: Crime & the City Solution - Acoustic £26 (inc. fees) - St Matthias Church - 25th September 2025 Formed in Sydney by Simon Bonney at the age of 16, Crime & the City Solution’s early performances from 1977-1979 had a big impact on key figures of the early Melbourne art-punk/post punk scene. In 1984, Bad Seed Mick Harvey shipped Bonney to England to form the London based Crime with their friend, the brilliant and ever influential ex-Birthday Party guitarist, Rowland S Howard, his brother Harry Howard on bass and Epic Soundtracks on drums. Two years on, having toured Europe, the UK and US and released several EPs and an album, this lineup reached its zenith in a historic swansong performance in Wim Wenders’ cinematic masterpiece ‘Wings of Desire’. Following the Berlin incarnation, encapsulated in Shine, The Bride Ship, Paradise Disco and the live album, The Adversary, it would be 20 years before the band, then based in Detroit, would return with 2013’s American Twilight: “as much an elegy to the American Dream that’s turned into a global nightmare as it is a damn fine rock & roll album” -The Quietus Core members Simon Bonney and Bronwyn Adams recently returned with Crime’s sixth studio album the killer, recorded in Berlin by the second incarnation of the band to be based in the German capital. Presented by Baba Yaga's Hut. All ages

Lauridsen O magnum mysterium, Nocturnes for Choir and Piano Brahms How lovely are thy dwellings Britten Deus in adjutorium meum Durufl Agnus Dei with a special set by Vox Next Gen

Saxophonist, composer and improviser Cole Pulice (they/them) traffics in shimmering, otherworldly beauty. On Land's End Eternal, their first album for Leaving Records (releasing May 9th), the Oakland-based artist expands their compositional palette beyond signal-processed saxophone to include layers of electric guitar and lush choral arrangements. The result is a prismatic collection of pastoral chamber jazz in six parts. Pulice's previous release, a 22-minute electroacoustic odyssey titled If I Dont See You in the Future, Ill See You In the Pasture (Longform Editions, 2023), was named Best New Music by Pitchfork and included in the publication's Best Songs Of The 2020s. Pulice has also released a smattering of work on beloved labels including Moon Glyph, Aural Canyon and Cached Media. Their performance history includes appearances at Pitchfork Music Festival (UK), Rewire (NL), BERJAZZ (DE), Drone Not Drones (US), & Noise Pop Festival (US). (Pulice is pronounced puh-lee-ché)

A live and immersive sonic experience exploring the effects of sound on the mind and body. Featuring: Spoken Wordsmiths - Nikita Gill & Salena Godden Sarangi and Voice - Amrit Kaur Clarinet - Arun Ghosh Cello - Satin Beige Violin & String Armonica - Raven Bush Gongs & Percussion - Alex Lavery Oscillators & FX - James Ford Presented by Eat Your Own Ears. This is an all ages event

Martha has constantly experimented with her musical parameters. In the early days this meant singing the folk songs she had know since childhood one week and recording electronica and trip-hop the next. Her new tour is a sparky union of folk, acoustic, trip-hop and electronica. With her longtime collaborators and musicians Matt Tweed and Matt Kelly, among others they entwine raw vocals, sparkling melodies and thought provoking lyrics with filmic movements and earthy baselines. To see them live is to connect with longed-for parts of ourselves.

Cerys Hafana is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who mangles, mutates, and transforms traditional music. She explores the creative possibilities and unique qualities of the triple harp, and is also interested in found sounds, archival materials and electronic processing. She comes from Machynlleth, Wales, where rivers and roads meet on the way to the sea. Cerys has won over audiences from Green Man to the Eisteddfod and from BBC 6 Music Festival to Celtic Connections with her magical, progressive sound. Her second album Edyf was selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Ten albums of 2022, as well as receiving wide-spread media attention and critical acclaim.

Join us for a delicious B BQ in the garden after the concert - 2 courses with vegan/veggie options for 18